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I played this psuedo-FMV game called TOTAL DISTORTION. You had to go to the distortion dimension to get exciting new material for music videos. Featuring this guy:  He sings this when he kills you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4hnA8jXwo
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thathonkey posted:You could alter an *.ini file to change the shell from explorer and I wanted to try geoshell. Well... It kinda sucked so when i went to switch back i accidentally saved it as "exporer.exe" which caused the system to kind of brick. I panicked because the os would no longer load. This is pretty much the foundation of my own computer knowledge as a kid. gently caress around with something I probably shouldn't have, and "oh poo poo I need to fix this before dad gets home!"
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thathonkey posted:way to read my post idiot my point was why do you need a separate disk, turd connoisseur
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Wicker Man posted:About the failing hardrives, I heard part of the failure has to do with how often you erase then rewrite stuff on it. Is that true? If so, how often did you guys ever rewrite data on it? Or did you all sort of steadily add stuff overtime without erasing anything? That's definitely true for flash, but for ye olde spinning disks, I've never heard of that being the case. Flash chips are only rated for so many write/erase cycles.
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I remember reading something almost 10 years ago where a guy had a program rewrite a flash drive over and over again,l all day, and it took a drat long before it started to fail. I've never had flash memory fail.
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Yeah the write/erase cycle limit was something of a concern in the very early days of SSDs, but they're robust enough now that they're very unlikely to fail before getting upgraded to something with 1000x the capacity anyway.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:27
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Robotic Liberation music video by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 (my first computer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8
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Jan 29, 2016 00:30
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In which a couple of Microsoft idiots get Windows Vista tattoos.
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Kidney Stone posted:Robotic Liberation music video by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 (my first computer): This owns. I was gonna say "oh look another Swede making c64 music" but on closer inspection his name appears Finnish. simosimo posted:Rad 
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Jan 29, 2016 01:33
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Jan 29, 2016 01:37
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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simosimo posted:Rad 
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Bonzo posted:
Luba Goy was an 80s tv instructional programmer, comedy indeed 
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Jan 29, 2016 05:15
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We send fuckings to all who suggested that we should start using ram expansions
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Jan 29, 2016 05:42
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jm20 posted:Luba Goy was an 80s tv instructional programmer, comedy indeed That guy might have more luck with the computer if he makes a pledge by the sign of the three-toed sloth.
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simosimo posted:Rad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixXp3e0a65E
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Data Graham posted:We send fuckings to all who suggested that we should start using ram expansions Yes hello? Can I send you a loving?
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Does anybody else remember Electronic Arts' Studio/1? It was a highly entertaining bitmap paint and animation tool, designed for monochrome Macs. There was also a Studio/8 (8-bit color) and a Studio/32 (32-bit color), the latter of which was apparently a quasi-port of Amiga's Deluxe Paint. Link to Studio/1's box art: https://rhodblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/nouveaute-macintosh-studio1/ So fun. I would love to play around with it again.
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Wanna pet that USB.
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I bought a USB one for $10. Cheapest barcode reader you could buy at the time.
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Speaking of sega Saturn someone posted this in the dark souls 3 thread and wow what a loving weird game: virtual hydlide You'll never see games quite like this, ever again. I don't know if that is a good or bad thing though.
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Do people still look for the cuecat for scanning? I know at one point they were all the rage. I assume there's better options today. Hell, I bet there's an app that does it.
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Snuffman posted:Do people still look for the cuecat for scanning? I know at one point they were all the rage. I assume there's better options today.
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Snuffman posted:Do people still look for the cuecat for scanning? I know at one point they were all the rage. I assume there's better options today. Barcode scanners were on the Android Market Day 0. The one I installed way back when is still on the, now, Play Store. Difference is that the cue cat could interact with PC/Mac applications to do things like keeping your own inventory or, for some reason, you are too lazy to type and just want to print barcodes to go to your favorite sites on the World Wide Web.
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I found a couple of old game boxes while I was moving house The Lemmings cover art is actually awesome:  When you open up the box, there's another box inside:  Which contains the game on both kinds of floppies and the manual:   Also found these two:  
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loving hell, epic pinballs was the best pinball game I have ever played
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Lemmings was like computerized crack. Waaaaaay back in the day, I worked for the local Best Buy, and the department manager would scribble little levels on pieces of paper, show them to me, and say stuff like, "How the gently caress am I supposed to solve this?!" Sure, there was work to be done, but GODDAMN THOSE LEMMINGS!
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It was hell to get help with a game back then. My first go-to would be any other friend who might have been playing whatever game at the same time. The next step was to skim over game magazines and their help sections, but that could be hit or miss depending on how new (or old) the game in question was. The final, desperate plea for help would be to actually write a letter to the help section of a gaming magazine. In retrospect, it seems to make the games more magical. In reality, I'm probably just remembering the good parts. Does anyone remember how lots of pre-1992 didn't have a map feature? You were expected to draw your own maps on paper as you went.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Does anyone remember how lots of pre-1992 didn't have a map feature? You were expected to draw your own maps on paper as you went. I really wish I thought of this when I played that lovely SNES Lord of the Rings game: When you reach a dungeon, you find an item that's like "Barrow downs map C", which means you gotta pull out the game manual/walkthrough and eyeball the map inside of it. Except I was renting it from Blockbuster. Pen and paper are incredibly powerful tools for older games. Now everything just holds your hand and shows you the way or memorizes things for you.
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I don't think I've ever beaten Lemmings. That game got really challenging in the later levels.
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TotalLossBrain posted:You were expected to draw your own maps on paper as you went. I used to make maps when I was hired to test KKnD Xtreme. I would draw every drat square of the map on butchers paper and map out where all enemies were and where glitches happened. (back when a company would pay to alpha/beta test games instead of charging for it so people would feel involved by volunteering in the dev process)
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TotalLossBrain posted:It was hell to get help with a game back then. My first go-to would be any other friend who might have been playing whatever game at the same time. That's pretty much where my attempts at getting helped usually ended  Reading a magazine or writing a letter? Too hard!quote:Does anyone remember how lots of pre-1992 didn't have a map feature? You were expected to draw your own maps on paper as you went. Also too hard, I just suffered with trying to remember things. Wolfenstein 3D (released in '92) had some pretty nasty mazes 
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Buttcoin purse posted:That's pretty much where my attempts at getting helped usually ended I remember being so used to pressing 'm' in Duke3D and Doom, that when Quake was released, I figured it worked the same way. Nope. Ok, let's type 'map' in the console. Nope. What the gently caress, id? Granted, the maps were a lot easier to navigate anyway.
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Mak0rz posted:I don't think I've ever beaten Lemmings. That game got really challenging in the later levels. I've only ever beaten the Sega Master System version, and even then it was a collaborative effort with my flatmates at the time. It really helped that the SMS version was limited by the hardware so there was a maximum of 20 lemmings per level. mng posted:I remember being so used to pressing 'm' in Duke3D and Doom, that when Quake was released, I figured it worked the same way. Nope. Ok, let's type 'map' in the console. Nope. What the gently caress, id? Granted, the maps were a lot easier to navigate anyway. Yeah, I thought that was kind of bullshit the first time I played Quake II. Technically, Doom/Duke3D were easier to program maps for since they were basically 2D games played from a 3D perspective, but that didn't stop Descent from having maps. BTW, who uses 'm' for maps? That's what the tab key is for.
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TotalLossBrain posted:It was hell to get help with a game back then. I remember waaaaay back when, sometime around 1983, we wrote a POSTCARD to a gaming magazine in a different country which offered help when you got stuck in a game. They sent a POSTCARD with some hints back to you a couple of days later. I remember being stuck at the "The incredible Hulk" text adventure on my ZX Spectrum and using their service. mcbexx has a new favorite as of 12:59 on Jan 30, 2016 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:You were expected to draw your own maps on paper as you went.  somehow missed a turn while mapping the undergound in myst and after a few days ended up calling a buddy on a landline to consult his handwritten notes and maps crew represent e: pretty dang sure it was going northeast at PS or P on this map
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